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Watching Ottawa do it sucks, ya At some point, if everyone is zigging, zagging is just the better odds play. Unfortunately, I think we’re probably there re: this deadline. At this point we probably just sit it out who knows though

As long as Adams is still lurking in the weeds They think I’m hiding in the weeds .....but I AM the weeds

I’m going to be mad if this isn’t in the everything Adams has done thread soon.

Did you read the letter to the season ticket holders? - - - In seriousness, I get the impression with Adams that’s he’s very hard-line once a course of action has been chosen. Almost like he sets parameters in advance that can’t be broken in case there’s temptation for emotion to factor in or something. The season was set up as a development year for example, so it stays a development year. He set a price for Eichel, and pulled the trigger once it came. It would have been presumably so possible to make this deal, I feel like Adams sets his price, makes it known, and if you like, you can come to him. Downside being, there’s no context wiggle room Yes

Trade Draft pick

They are calling him “doubtful” for a game still a full 3 days away, so at best we can call Dahlin “questionable” for Monday against the Oilers. So optimistically he’s back Monday. The Sabres actually fly out for a back to back on the road the next night, so conservatively, I’d say we actually might not see him back till Thursday, March 9 vs the Stars here in Buffalo. Unless it’s more severe than thought, and he’s out longer, that’d have him missing 4 more games, 6 total from the injury and 13 days. 10 days, 4 games appears the minimum here, if the optimistic holds true

A long time a long time

be a dog “Do I look good?”

I know but it was a relative comparison. Still-Man only needs to have talent real enough to get from 8 to 6. It’s not really a bridge too far in principle imo

Im going to delete this in about 30 seconds PA this is purely a joke for your eyes I don’t wanna get banned in my defence it came up in the gif search provided here

I’m not / hate being “tAge is Josh allin” Guy but in a world where Tage can go from imminent bust to “is he actually Mario Lemieux 2?” in the span of a few Marvel movies, you seem to be spending an awful lot of words being upset with Still-Man when he’s a development jump under Meatballs all of the distance from #8 Guy to #6 Guy while jumping over minus a billion Bryson (insane stat outlier here), from satisfying the requirements you listed in 2)

If we lose 10-0 the next 2 and Dahlin is back, 90-100% good to go for the remaining 20+ games, we’ll much more likely get in than if we win 1 or 2 of those games and Dahlin misses an extended further period. Imo. Of course the games are v. Important, to your point, just think the “are we cooked”? equation, if solved at all in the next few days, will be by way of the answer to the RD question My verve for the deadline itself is gone. More interested in if there’ll be a move to IR, or not

No one is like Dahlin, here. Even league wide that number is increasingly shrinking, he’s very special. I think, especially with a d-man, we will appreciate it more over time. He plays defence, good defence. He stops goals. Karlsson is a forward. Dahlin is a ridiculous team relative plus minus. Imo morrissey has little chance of getting a Norris nom above Dahlin (assuming Dahlin actually comes back soon?) because, I’ve heard, the voters care about plus minus. on a related tangent, I’m requesting a deal to team stormcloud this deadline with a built in escape-hatch back to Rover upon Rasmus’s return

This place is bumping during the day lately, today it’s helping me deal with my Dahlin depression don’t you people have jobs? I work nights

95% of Sabres twitter was “trust the process” until the deadline deals starting charging through and now their heads are turning quicker than Simba’s when the wildebeests got going

Agree re: Dahlin, and I this injury stretch is really gonna hurt his case, it’s already tight. It honestly freaking sucks, having a hard time not getting engulfed by hockey depression here

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No, it’s really not. The Sabres are going to become good, I agree on that part. But it’s not because of what the contending teams are doing right now. NM the wild suggestion it will, in itself, open up the door to “multiple cups”. the decision making process, and context, that led to these teams being in the spot they are, in the *first place*, where they ARE in a position where these moves are actually possible, will continue: just like I always say we have to take the Ullmark swing and miss with Adams because the very decision making process that led to that miss is what has resulted in so many of his good moves. The GMs operating this way is part and parcel with the decision making process that got them to this spot. The “other teams are opening up a window for the Sabres”, the “other teams are going to regret this” lines of thought are misplaced, borne out of the situation we’ve been in for so long where we’ve forgotten how the rest of the world lives. No one is opening a window for the Sabres. We will need to push ourselves through

Regret? Heck no agree with the rest If I was in the situation those teams are I would implore my GM to do the same. And wouldn’t revert to revisionist stuff after, should it not work out. Those teams are going for it, they should be.

You’ve done an outstanding job here dialing in on the variable here imo Doesn't tell us why the goalies suck more at home. But we know they do. My guess is still small sample size randomness

Like, on foot? Then I disagree. Placing a bet? Ya, prob